Pancarida

Superorder PancaridaOrder ThermosbaenaceaHolocene; eyes reduced or absent; brood pouch formed from dorsal extension of carapace; length about 4 mm; fresh and brackish water, some in warm springs; about 9 species.There is no universal agreement

Superorder Pancarida Order Thermosbaenacea (hot-springs shrimps). Holocene; minute; blind; wormlike; carapace short, forming dorsal brood pounch in female; thoracic legs weak, mostly 2-branched; lacking gills; pleopods weak or lacking; subterranean; about 15 species in 5 families. Superorder Peracarida